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Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, taken by Cliff Vaughs, 1967 Box 1, Image RL.11723-P-0001

Close-up side view of Fannie Lou Hamer at an unidentified event, seated, holding an American flag, and listening. Taken by SNCC photographer Cliff Vaughs. Stamped on retro with SNCC photo credit and address. Date taken from same image found online.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. Civil Rights Movement and Wayside Theatre photographs, 1960s
  3. Civil Rights Movement, 1960s

Injured African American woman with bandaged head sitting at Winslow Hospital in Danville, Virginia, 1963 June Box 1, Image RL.11723-P-0002

Caption pasted on the back reads: "Danville, VA., June 1963 --- One of 47 peaceful demonstrators hospitalized on the night of June 10 after being beaten by police. SNCC photo taken at Winslow Hospital, Danville, following prayer vigil at the city jail where high pressure fire hoses were turned on the demonstrators, who were then beaten with billy sticks by the police." Unidentified photographer.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. Civil Rights Movement and Wayside Theatre photographs, 1960s
  3. Civil Rights Movement, 1960s

Group of 14 African American girls standing in a cell in a Leesburg, Georgia jail, taken by Danny Lyon, 1963 September Box 1, Image RL.11723-P-0007

The caption pasted on the back reads: "SNCC photo taken at the Leesburg, Georgia stockade in Sept. 1963, where 20 girls, 11 to 15 years old were held for as long as one month in a cell 8' x 10' x 30'. They had no beds, springs, mattresses or blankets. They were arrested in August 1963, at various times, in connection with peaceful demonstrations in Americus, Georgia. SNCC photo." No photographer's name is present.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. Civil Rights Movement and Wayside Theatre photographs, 1960s
  3. Civil Rights Movement, 1960s

Wayside Theatre, Early 1960s? 9 items

The origins and setting of these unmarked prints are unknown, as is the photographer. They were discovered in a file cabinet at the Wayside Theatre in the small city of Middletown, Virginia, close to Washington D.C., which was a cinema built in the 1940s before its transformation in 1962 into a small community theater. It closed in 2013.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. Civil Rights Movement and Wayside Theatre photographs, 1960s

Grace DiSanto Correspondence Sub-subseries, 1978-1993 and undated

A former student of Chappell's, DiSanto carried on a voluminous correspondence with Chappell, especially in the late 1970s, frequently attaching many pages of new poems to the letters. The decision to organize her works in a separate subseries was based on the volume of her letters and writings.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2023 and undated
  3. Correspondence Series, 1960-1997 and undated
  4. Incoming Correspondence Subseries, 1960-1997 and undated

Incoming Correspondence Subseries, 1960-1997 and undated

Includes letters from friends, family members, writers, teachers, students, editors, publishers, and readers of Chappell's works. Letters are arranged chronologically with undated letters at the end. Some letters include short writings as attachments. Longer writings such as drafts of entire books, complete issues of serials, and so on appear in the Writings by Others Series. Chappell frequently uses the backs of letters, envelopes, or attachments to write drafts of various material: responses to the letter at hand, poems, story fragments, translations, and autobiographical statements. A chronological list of these items appears following the box list for this subseries.

  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2023 and undated
  3. Correspondence Series, 1960-1997 and undated

Outgoing Correspondence Subseries, 1964-1997 and undated

Includes letters to friends, family members, writers, teachers, students, editors, publishers, and readers of Chappell's works. Letters are arranged chronologically with undated letters at the end. The bulk of this series dates after 1990 when, at the Library's request, Chappell began retaining copies of all his outgoing correspondence. Drafts of outgoing correspondence also appear in the Writings by Chappell Series, Notebooks Subseries.

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  2. Fred Chappell papers, 1944-2023 and undated
  3. Correspondence Series, 1960-1997 and undated

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